…Buhari’s ‘Civil War’ Analogy Insensitive —Aisha Yesufu
…FG Blasts Twitter Of Double Standards
Nigerians on social media have hailed the decision of twitter to delete President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments that he will treat young people misbehaving in the country in the language they understand.
In the tweet shared on Tuesday, Buhari spoke about the civil war experience and threatened to deal with those “bent on destroying” Nigeria through “insurrection.”
“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,” he had said.
Buhari’s statement which was also tweeted sparked outrage on social media with some Nigerians criticising the President while some said the President sounded firm in his warning against perpetrators of violence in the South-East.
Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has described as “insensitive”, the civil war analogy by Buhari that he will treat young people misbehaving in the country in the language they understand.
She made this known in a video statement on Wednesday while reacting to a statement made by the President on Tuesday after meeting with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu; and other electoral commissioners in Aso Villa, Abuja, over the series of attacks on INEC facilities, police stations and other public infrastructure in the South-Eastern part of the country.
Reacting on Wednesday, Yesufu said, “My name is Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu. I am Igbo, a threat to the Igbo people is a threat to me. Any attack on the Igbo people is an attack on me. Any malignment of the Igbo people is a malignment to me. We are all Nigerians and no Nigerian is more Nigerian than the others.
“The government must ensure that it deploys its resources and its apparatus equally to every section of this country.
“I totally condemn the tweet from the President where the President is threatening the Igbo people. He is threatening them with what happened in 1967. What happened in 1967 what a genocide, a crime against humanity and it must never ever be allowed to happen again.”
“For a President to come out today and use 1967 as a yardstick to threaten people with what happened then, with the 30 months of gruesomeness, with the 30 months of heinousness, with the 30 months of atrocities that were meted out on human beings, on fellow brothers and sisters, on children in this country, is inhumane, it is insensitive, it is callous, and it is unspeakable.”
However, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday, accused social media giant, Twitter, of double standards for deleting a controversial post by Buhari on the Biafran war of 1967-1970 during which many lives were lost.
Speaking with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday, Mohammed said Twitter had conveniently ignored inciting tweets by the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and others.
The minister said the social media giant also displayed the same bias during the #ENDSARS protest during which government and private property were either looted or destroyed.
He said Twitter’s role is suspicious and Nigeria would not be fooled.
He said, “Twitter may have its own rules, they are not the universal rules. If Mr President, anywhere in the world, feels very bad and concern about a situation, he is free to express such views.
“Now, we should stop comparing apples with oranges. If an organisation is proscribed, it is different from any other which is not proscribed.
“Two, any organisation that gives directives to its members, to attack police stations, to kill policemen, to attack correctional centres, to kill warders, and you are now saying that Mr President does not have the right to express his dismay and anger about that?
“They are the ones guilty of double standards. I don’t see anywhere in the world where an organisation, a person will stay somewhere outside Nigeria and will direct his members to attack the symbols of authority, the police, the military, especially when that organisation has been proscribed.
“By whatever name, you can’t justify giving orders to kill policemen or to kill anybody you do not agree with.”
Buhari had in series of tweet on Tuesday through his Twitter handle, @MBuhari tweeted, “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.”
Reactions of Nigerians on Twitter
@IniGenesis Information has a spirit, good to hear jack has deleted the #Buhari tweet. Unfortunately the message has already been passed. I trust Nigerians on this, they’ll never forget it, I know there are lot of screenshot out there already.
@OJDonatusventur I think he should be suspended like Trump. No leader preach war against her citizens, it is not prowess but act of recklessness and irresponsible to threat citizens with civil war memory. We are Nigerians n we must unite against Insecurities/Injustice.
@ItehEkunke He might have deleted it but it has been registered in our memories that he’s not a good leader.
@Real_Mekz He didn’t delete it himself. Many of us reported his account. I think Twitter respected his office to have deleted only the tweet and not suspend him straight
@CriticNations That tweet and press release he did is more than enough reason to call for his impeachment in sane countries but this is Nigeria
@ItehEkunke He or twitter might have deleted it but it has been registered in our memories that “HE” BABA NEPOTISM is never a good leader.
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@JamesChigozie13 Deleting it alone is not punishment enough, his account should be deleted. @OfficialAPCNg
and @NGRPresident with their history of lies will deny such statement was ever made
@nwaguobinnaWhat God can’t do does not exist. Thanks to Twitter.
@lekanlink A very big shame to the Northern President of Nigeria★Mr.PR£SID£NT SIR™★©
@peter9ceguy Not civil war. Genocide. Say it the way it is. Genocide. The world knows and understands. Poor journalism is another thing that promotes terrorism in the zoo
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